Re: URGENT: DRAIN LOG FILES

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 03:37:31PM +0200, Esperanza wrote: > How can I drain logfiles in IDS 7.3 NT? I am developing so I don't need to > save data, I just want to clean the log. I can do it by executing ontape -a > and if LTAPEDEV and TAPEDEV are set to NULL, but I don't know how exactly I > must do it: Have tried: > TAPEDEV \\\\null > LTAPEDEV \\\\null> or > TAPEDEV null > LTAPEDEV null I'm not sure about this since I didn't work with IDS on NT but have you tried to set the LTAPEDEV to NUL ? > > but when I execute ontape -a I receive the following: > Please, mount tape 1 on \\\\null and press RETURN... > Logbackup failed - function open tape device \\\\null failed code -1 errno 2 > > Another question :how can assign more log files and larger? By default I > always obtain 10 of 500 Kb, although I set LOGFILES and LOGSIZE to different > values and restart the server. > To add a logical log use: onparams -a ... command. Best Regards, Octav -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com